He is Lincoln, he is Kennedy, he is FDR, he is BARACK OBAMA, he has charisma and my GOD the man can speak.

OBAMA.

I knew it was coming but I still can't believe it.

OBAMA.

I thought Hillary was the one but his speeches and his unifying force prove me wrong.

OBAMA.

I feel like I need to hit the restart button. Make new friends in a new place.

I need to work on my communications skills. I am an ace at listening, and always have been. But actually getting the things I think and feel off my mind to the people that I need to hear them . . . I'm terrible at it and I'm terrified of it. And that is the root of most of my problems ( Read more... )

Next semester I am going to start a delicious affair with Runk. I ate there for lunch today, and the salad bar was heavenly. At least relatively ( Read more... )

http://giraffesgiraffes.tumblr.com

I'm trying to get into it. Every once in awhile I will write something that is half decent. The problem is, it's always based on intensely personal memories or fantasies (NOT sexual, in case your dirty minds made assumptions), though the setting and dialog are all new material (i.e. not straight from life). I just can't get far enough away from ( Read more... )

Specifically those that apologize for "flooding your inbox" unless you send more than 2 e-mails per DAY to the same people, or more than 4 per week that are not to a chat e-mail list and/or don't have anything important to say, or if you send a bunch of e-mails that say the same thing, in which case you are already kind of a jerk and wouldn't ( Read more... )

I'm pissed at the Wash ( Read more... )

My mom sent me a link to the website of one of the hotels we're staying at in Costa Rica. I was looking at photos when I came across one of the lobby. It's a really cool looking lobby ( Read more... )

"--pray is one Miss Anville in any of them thing-em-bobs?"

This is the second use recorded in the OED of thing + meaningless sounds. It's from Evelina (1778). The first use was in 1751. And we still use these nonsense words today.

Holla.